Cops: Teen, 14, shot, critically wounded in eye in Little Village

A 14-year-old boy was critically injured Sunday afternoon when he was wounded in the eye while riding in a vehicle in the city’s Little Village neighborhood, Chicago police said.

It wasn’t immediately clear whether the teen was the intended target, authorities said.

The victim was sitting in the passenger side of a vehicle in traffic in the 2200 block of South Albany Avenue about 1:50 p.m., police said, citing early reports. As the vehicle stopped temporarily, a gunman in a passing eastbound vehicle opened fire, striking the boy in the right eye before fleeing the scene, police said.

The teen was taken to Stroger Hospital in critical condition, police said.

Police didn’t have a description of the gunman or the getaway vehicle, and no arrests had been made.